Carter hints at quitting All Blacks
9:25AM Friday November 23, 2007
Dan Carter has suggested he may walk away from the All Blacks.
The first five-eighth said today that he will give consideration to playing in rugby's English Premiership after next year.
Carter, 25, has one year left on his contract with the New Zealand Rugby Union and told Britain's Sky Sports News that when it expires he will "make a decision on where I want my career to head".
In the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks' quarterfinal elmination from the World Cup last month, Carter indicated he was leaning strongly towards staying in New Zealand until the next tournament.
However, his latest comments suggest an overseas contract is a realistic possibility.
"I really enjoy playing over here (in England) -- there are great crowds and great people," Carter said.
"It's something I'm going to have to have a good think about as I consider where I want my career to head. But it's definitely on the cards for the future."
Such a move would make Carter ineligible for the All Blacks.
Despite a disappointing 2007 season, 44-test veteran Carter is arguably the most valuable and marketable player in the world game.
Last month he told NZPA he was keen to be a player to build a new-look team around going into the 2011 World Cup hosted by New Zealand.
"I'm only 25 and hopefully have a few years left in the black jersey," he said.
"It's a good chance to sit down and plan the next few years and put my career exactly where I want it to go.
"I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
"This black jersey means more to me than anything else. I'm keen to hang around and make the most of these next few years."
Already this year several high-profile All Blacks have left for England -- including lock Chris Jack (Saracens), prop Carl Hayman (Newcastle) and second five-eighths Aaron Mauger (Leicester) and Luke McAlister (Sale).
Dan Carter: forse in Inghilterra
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RE: Dan Carter: forse in Inghilterra
Il richiamo del pubblico...delle grandi sfide tra club...
Perché non dicono mai la verità e la smettono di fare gli ipocriti?
SOLDI! SOLDI! SOLDI!
E pensare che attorno a lui (e detto da lui, come ricordato nell'articolo sopra) si deve costruire la squadra per il 2011.
Perché non dicono mai la verità e la smettono di fare gli ipocriti?
SOLDI! SOLDI! SOLDI!
E pensare che attorno a lui (e detto da lui, come ricordato nell'articolo sopra) si deve costruire la squadra per il 2011.
Non so se i miei giocatori bevono whisky. So che bevendo frappé non si vincono molte partite.
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Il prezzo e' giusto per il gioiellino neo zelandese!
Dan Carter open to offers from UK
5:00AM Saturday November 24, 2007
By Steve Deane
First five-eighths Daniel Carter will have to turn down offers of up to twice his present salary if he wants to remain an All Black beyond next season.
Industry sources say an All Black of Carter's stature is likely to receive offers in excess of $1 million a season to play in Europe after the star revealed in Britain that he will give consideration to playing in rugby's English Premiership after next year.
Top-tier All Blacks typically earn around $500,000 in combined NZRU and provincial union salaries.
Carter, whose contract with the NZRU expires at the end of 2008, told a British television channel he would consider offers from England.
In Britain on a promotional tour, the 25-year-old All Blacks playmaker told Sky Sports News: "It's something I'm going to have to have a good think about as I consider where I want my career to head.
"But it's definitely on the cards for the future."
Prop Carl Hayman set the most recent benchmark of an All Black's value in Europe when he signed a deal with Premiership club Newcastle Falcons widely reported to be worth £300,000 ($823,000) a season.
Carter could expect to command considerably more than that.
While the NZRU would be unlikely to match an offer from Europe, it would point to the value of his All Black status as part of the bid to retain his services.
Carter has lucrative promotional deals in New Zealand with the likes of sportswear giant adidas and underwear company Jockey and, despite reports to the contrary, the Weekend Herald understands he would struggle to attract the same level of endorsement income in soccer-mad Europe.
"For starters he would no longer be an All Black so he wouldn't be on the world stage," said an industry insider who preferred not to be named.
"And he isn't English or French so he is nowhere near as well known as someone like Jonny Wilkinson."
British clubs would also struggle to break the bank to snare Carter as they operate under salary cap constraints.
Even Wilkinson at his peak could not command a salary over £300,000.
Despite having said shortly after this year's World Cup exit that he planned to remain in the black jersey, Carter is unlikely to rush into any decision. He told Sky Sports News he would wait until his current contract expired before making a decision on where he wanted his career to head.
"I really enjoy playing over here [in England] - there are great crowds and great people."
Dan Carter open to offers from UK
5:00AM Saturday November 24, 2007
By Steve Deane
First five-eighths Daniel Carter will have to turn down offers of up to twice his present salary if he wants to remain an All Black beyond next season.
Industry sources say an All Black of Carter's stature is likely to receive offers in excess of $1 million a season to play in Europe after the star revealed in Britain that he will give consideration to playing in rugby's English Premiership after next year.
Top-tier All Blacks typically earn around $500,000 in combined NZRU and provincial union salaries.
Carter, whose contract with the NZRU expires at the end of 2008, told a British television channel he would consider offers from England.
In Britain on a promotional tour, the 25-year-old All Blacks playmaker told Sky Sports News: "It's something I'm going to have to have a good think about as I consider where I want my career to head.
"But it's definitely on the cards for the future."
Prop Carl Hayman set the most recent benchmark of an All Black's value in Europe when he signed a deal with Premiership club Newcastle Falcons widely reported to be worth £300,000 ($823,000) a season.
Carter could expect to command considerably more than that.
While the NZRU would be unlikely to match an offer from Europe, it would point to the value of his All Black status as part of the bid to retain his services.
Carter has lucrative promotional deals in New Zealand with the likes of sportswear giant adidas and underwear company Jockey and, despite reports to the contrary, the Weekend Herald understands he would struggle to attract the same level of endorsement income in soccer-mad Europe.
"For starters he would no longer be an All Black so he wouldn't be on the world stage," said an industry insider who preferred not to be named.
"And he isn't English or French so he is nowhere near as well known as someone like Jonny Wilkinson."
British clubs would also struggle to break the bank to snare Carter as they operate under salary cap constraints.
Even Wilkinson at his peak could not command a salary over £300,000.
Despite having said shortly after this year's World Cup exit that he planned to remain in the black jersey, Carter is unlikely to rush into any decision. He told Sky Sports News he would wait until his current contract expired before making a decision on where he wanted his career to head.
"I really enjoy playing over here [in England] - there are great crowds and great people."
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Carter says 'burden' of Cup too much to bear
5:00AM Monday November 26, 2007
First five-eighths Daniel Carter says the "burden" of winning a World Cup is driving some All Blacks out of New Zealand, while he remains torn over whether to spend a year in England himself.
Carter is contracted to the New Zealand Rugby Union until the end of 2008 but indicated he remained committed to playing at the 2011 World Cup.
Whether he tastes some short-term action in Europe before then remains to be seen.
"The All Blacks have always meant everything to me. It is what I've wanted since the age of 4 or 5. That hasn't changed," Carter said in a wide-ranging feature in the Times newspaper.
"Whether I come over here for a year, or stick around New Zealand for another four years, that's one of those decisions I will have to make."
Carter, who is on a promotional visit to London, understood why several of his World Cup teammates had opted to leave for England, with the expectations that come with being an All Blacks a negative to some.
"Since winning in'87, we have been expected to win every other World Cup," Carter said.
"That becomes quite a burden, a real weight on your shoulders. There's always that pressure and it is part of the reason some of the guys come over here.
"They play over here for a club. You might play more games than you would play in a New Zealand season, but it is more structured.
"You play for one team, week in, week out, and you are allowed to concentrate on that. In New Zealand, you play for three or four teams, the standard changes but you must always play well."
Carter spoke openly about what went wrong in New Zealand's 20-18 World Cup quarter-final loss to France last month, agreeing his team didn't respond well when the pressure went on in the second half.
He said the All Blacks' attack narrowed when second five-eighths Luke McAlister was sent to the sinbin early in the second half, which wasn't their natural game.
"Because we did that, we made it easier for the French to defend against us. Luke came back on and we didn't change our game plan," Carter said.
"We got our second try from a series of close-in drives but the French defended a lot tighter after that and we needed to change it, but we didn't."
Carter missed the closing stages after limping off with a recurrence of a calf injury and admitted his teammates should have attempted a dropped goal.
"This is something we could learn from the England side, and other teams over here. They have set plays for drop goals," he said.
"That's a big part of the game over here, whereas you go to the Super 14 and you will probably see two drop goals in the whole competition.
"We practise drop-goal routines but it's not part of our culture. In the situation we were in, it would have been the most appropriate thing to do."
Carter revealed that when the team returned to their hotel after the loss he disappeared to his bedroom but couldn't sleep.
He was woken at 4.30am by teammates Chris Masoe and Ali Williams who told him to rejoin them for a beer.
Carter, 25, said the loss was an enormous personal learning experience after an international career that had been "plain sailing" until then.
"I thought it would continue like that but it didn't. Looking back, I can see I was vulnerable. Not having had a bad experience beforehand, I hadn't a chance to learn from it," Carter said.
"It wasn't arrogance, it was just that I hadn't the benefit of what comes from a huge loss. I hadn't played in the 2003 semifinal [loss to Australia].
"As long as I learn from this, I think things will be fine".
5:00AM Monday November 26, 2007
First five-eighths Daniel Carter says the "burden" of winning a World Cup is driving some All Blacks out of New Zealand, while he remains torn over whether to spend a year in England himself.
Carter is contracted to the New Zealand Rugby Union until the end of 2008 but indicated he remained committed to playing at the 2011 World Cup.
Whether he tastes some short-term action in Europe before then remains to be seen.
"The All Blacks have always meant everything to me. It is what I've wanted since the age of 4 or 5. That hasn't changed," Carter said in a wide-ranging feature in the Times newspaper.
"Whether I come over here for a year, or stick around New Zealand for another four years, that's one of those decisions I will have to make."
Carter, who is on a promotional visit to London, understood why several of his World Cup teammates had opted to leave for England, with the expectations that come with being an All Blacks a negative to some.
"Since winning in'87, we have been expected to win every other World Cup," Carter said.
"That becomes quite a burden, a real weight on your shoulders. There's always that pressure and it is part of the reason some of the guys come over here.
"They play over here for a club. You might play more games than you would play in a New Zealand season, but it is more structured.
"You play for one team, week in, week out, and you are allowed to concentrate on that. In New Zealand, you play for three or four teams, the standard changes but you must always play well."
Carter spoke openly about what went wrong in New Zealand's 20-18 World Cup quarter-final loss to France last month, agreeing his team didn't respond well when the pressure went on in the second half.
He said the All Blacks' attack narrowed when second five-eighths Luke McAlister was sent to the sinbin early in the second half, which wasn't their natural game.
"Because we did that, we made it easier for the French to defend against us. Luke came back on and we didn't change our game plan," Carter said.
"We got our second try from a series of close-in drives but the French defended a lot tighter after that and we needed to change it, but we didn't."
Carter missed the closing stages after limping off with a recurrence of a calf injury and admitted his teammates should have attempted a dropped goal.
"This is something we could learn from the England side, and other teams over here. They have set plays for drop goals," he said.
"That's a big part of the game over here, whereas you go to the Super 14 and you will probably see two drop goals in the whole competition.
"We practise drop-goal routines but it's not part of our culture. In the situation we were in, it would have been the most appropriate thing to do."
Carter revealed that when the team returned to their hotel after the loss he disappeared to his bedroom but couldn't sleep.
He was woken at 4.30am by teammates Chris Masoe and Ali Williams who told him to rejoin them for a beer.
Carter, 25, said the loss was an enormous personal learning experience after an international career that had been "plain sailing" until then.
"I thought it would continue like that but it didn't. Looking back, I can see I was vulnerable. Not having had a bad experience beforehand, I hadn't a chance to learn from it," Carter said.
"It wasn't arrogance, it was just that I hadn't the benefit of what comes from a huge loss. I hadn't played in the 2003 semifinal [loss to Australia].
"As long as I learn from this, I think things will be fine".